SharePoint 2010 Diagnostics Studio Errors Event ID 6398

Having installed the SharePoint 2010 Diagnostics Studio on a server we were seeing hundreds of events with ID 6398:- Log Name:      Application Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation Event ID:      6398 Task Category: Timer Level:         Critical Description: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Diagnostics.SPSqlBlockingReportDiagnosticProvider (ID e0c0213b-63fc-4ede-acc9-7a569ba95812) threw an exception. More information is included below. You do not [...]

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The type or namespace name ‘LayoutsPageBase’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)

After creating an empty SharePoint 2010 solution in Visual Studio 2010 I added an Application Page to the project but compiling failed and gave me the following error: The type or namespace name ‘LayoutsPageBase’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls’ (are you missing an assembly reference?) Using the object browser in Visual Studio I [...]

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Outlook 2010 Social Connector – No Items to show in this view

Upgraded to Outlook 2010 a while back and was interested in the Social Connector but for some reason whenever I opened the People Pane I always got a message displayed “No Items to show in this view” rather than the email threads etc that everyone else saw. Well, yesterday I took a 10 minute break [...]

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Debugging mode in SharePoint 2010 – set customerrors mode to off in web.config

Whilst trying to debug a Feature Receiver in Visual Studio 2010 I kept receiving the standard application error suggesting that if I wanted to view the details of the error that I set the customErrors to Off. That’s odd I thought I had already done that and a visit to the web.config in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80 showed [...]

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Windows Server 2008 Activation Error 0x8007232B

When I went to activate a new install of Windows Server 2008 R2 I received an error 0x8007232B. I install Win2k8 on a fairly regular basis and knew I had come across this error before but some of the Google results started talking about Vista and MAK keys and volume license agreements and I was [...]

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VPN Error: This connection requires an active Internet Connection – Windows Vista

  Windows Vista VPN Error When I try to connect to VPN on my Vista PC I click on “Connect To” and the VPN connection has a cross next to it and an error that reads “This connection requires an active Internet Connection”. For ages I have just been using a workaround that involves going [...]

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Error: The Add-in cannot be loaded by Outlook

After uninstalling Symantec Anti-virus I found that when I started Outlook 2007 it came up with the following error: The Add-in “Symantec AntiVirus 10.1″ (c:\program files(x86)\Symantec Antivirus\vpnsece4.dll) cannot be loaded by Outlook. Please contact the Add-in manufacturer for an update. If no update is available please uninstall the Add-in. The problem was that the addin [...]

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